Британдық консервативті саяхатшы және дәрігер Эндрю Мюррисон

British Conservative politician

Surgeon Commander Andrew William Murrison (born 24 April 1961) is a British doctor, naval officer and politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for South West Wiltshire, previously Westbury, since the 2001 general election. He has been serving as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Defence People and Families since October 2022. Murrison has held a variety of positions within the British government, including Minister for International Security Strategy, and Minister of State for Northern Ireland. Most recently he served as the Minister of State for International Development and the Middle East. In Parliament, he chaired the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee from July 2017 to May 2019.

Having been awarded a Royal Navy scholarship, Murrison qualified as a doctor from the University of Bristol's medical school in 1984. He holds the degrees of MD and MB ChB. In 2005, he spoke in parliament against European military union, saying "The threat that the proposed Euro force might pose to one of the most successful post war organisations, NATO, and to our symbiotic relationship with the United States, has surely not been adequately explored". In the debate on a Human Embryology and Fertilisation Bill in May 2008, he supported amendments to the bill aimed at reducing the maximum gestational age for an abortion from twenty four to twenty weeks, commenting: "The shock of the abortion list twenty five years ago is still clear in my mind. Since then, societal attitudes have changed, in part because of improved imaging of the unborn child. I'm sure the law needs updating and twenty weeks appears to strike the right balance". He is the Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Clinical Leadership and Management, and is a member of the "Cardiac Risk in the Young All Party Parliamentary Group". Murrison's Westbury constituency was abolished at the end of the Parliament of 2005 to 2010, but he was the Conservative party candidate for the new South West Wiltshire constituency, which includes most of his former constituency, and was elected on 6 May 2010.

After re election to Parliament – appointed as PPS to the Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley owing to his experience as a physician. November 2011 – appointed as the Prime Minister's special representative for First World War centenary commemorations. September 2012 – as part of the Prime Minister's first major cabinet reshuffle, appointed as Minister for International Security Strategy in the Ministry of Defence. July 2014 – appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Northern Ireland Office. January 2016 – appointed Prime Ministerial Trade Envoy to Tunisia and Morocco, until his resignation on 5 July 2022.

Murrison is married to Jennifer (Jenny) Munden, a physiotherapist. They have five daughters and live near Mere in Wiltshire.